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A provocative and funny guide to parenting from the online community Mumsnet, this is a triumph of common sense over hysteria. A mission statement, it sets out the 'rules' such as: Do cut your children's hair off, Don't let them dress like a Ho and Never buy them a guinea pig. 'A huge compendium of tips and anecdote' "Observer"
Synopsis
Provocative, funny, indispensable, inimitable, and a triumph of commonsense over hysteria, The Mumsnet Rules is the book parents everywhere have been crying out for.
Book Details
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Date:
30-Aug-2012
ISBN:
9781408822265
Guardian review
Why Did Nobody Tell Me? by Natasha Joffe and Justine Roberts review
the guardian Tue 11 September 2012
There's an organic wholegrain of truth in the notion that parenting website Mumsnet is stuffed with competitive mothers honing homemade weaning recipes and obsessing over their children's reading-scheme level. Even so, no platform catering for such a broad-based interest group can consist entirely of parents who would resort to murder if it meant bumping their kid up the waiting list of a school with an outstanding Ofsted. That's not to say that the compendium of wisdom culled from the Mumsnet message boards is warm and cuddly, but it does come with a milk-stained, sleep-deprived ring of truth, advice that has little to do with routines and "philosophies" yet can offer guidance on how to react when somebody in the supermarket tells you that a tantrumming child "needs a slap" or your grandmother refuses to call your baby by the name you have chosen. No book will please all mothers, all the time, but for those days when there's weeping and wailing and the kids are playing up too it's a little bundle of reassurance.